Rancho Sway Bar - Does this look right?

[Kid Vette]

Started putting on my recently purchased Rancho sway bar. It looks to me like the bar should be about 3/4' longer where it attaches to the spherical link. See how the link angles back to connect to the bar? Shouldn't the link be fairly close to perpendicular to the TA? I have the TA jacked up to where the half shaft is level in these pics. It seems to me with the link at an angle like this, it would lose a lot of the effectiveness of the bar. What do you think?

 

[redvetracr]

yes it does look short, the factory rear bar fits perfectly...

 

[phantomjock]

Is it possible that somebody cut it shorter for a different use? I note from the original "For Sale" posting:

...and I never got the lower parts of the heim to attach to the trailing arm (I have not used this bar). You can easily procure these parts from any good hardware store to complete the rear linkage.

Weld on an extension using a sleeve?

Good Luck -
Cheers - Jim

 

[Kid Vette]

Is it possible that somebody cut it shorter for a different use? I note from the original "For Sale" posting:

...and I never got the lower parts of the heim to attach to the trailing arm (I have not used this bar). You can easily procure these parts from any good hardware store to complete the rear linkage.

Weld on an extension using a sleeve?

Good Luck -
Cheers - Jim

The bar hasn't been cut. Still has paint on the ends.

 

[rtj]

Should be easy to make a new TA bracket that moves the hole aft.

 

[MYBAD79]

Should be easy to make a new TA bracket that moves the hole aft.

Agree, just weld to the existing bracket and drill a new hole .....

 

[phantomjock]

Fab a new one and mount on the end?

Would close off the open end of the TA nicely too...

Cheers - Jim

 

[Kid Vette]

I've decided to go with the stock bar. The Rancho bar may have been a little too much anyway and the geometry of the stock bar looks much better. These pictures are at full droop.